Not sure where this goes, but I am so excited. I got Michael's book for Christmas. My GCC celebrates her one year hatch day tomorrow, looking forward to her being a most amazing and well behaved little friend.

Lorius, please take into consideration that, at five months of age, you have a very young child in your hands so, if I were you, I would concentrate on bonding and teaching 'manners' as you go along and not so much formal training. Plenty of time to train when the bird is older and more self-assured (babies would do whatever you want them to without complaint even when they are stressed out about it - but this can have bad consequences as they get older because the human/bird bond is damaged by it -they have looooong memories!)

Pajarita wrote:Lorius, please take into consideration that, at five months of age, you have a very young child in your hands so, if I were you, I would concentrate on bonding and teaching 'manners' as you go along and not so much formal training. Plenty of time to train when the bird is older and more self-assured (babies would do whatever you want them to without complaint even when they are stressed out about it - but this can have bad consequences as they get older because the human/bird bond is damaged by it -they have looooong memories!)

No worries. I am mainly teaching Tupi to step up and down, target and fly to me when I call and fly to his cage. That takes up about ten minutes a day.We do two sessions of head scriches, beaky rubs, snuggles and he likes to lay upside down in my hand and play toes. He also has a lot of toys to play with including things he can destroy.

Pajarita wrote:Lorius, please take into consideration that, at five months of age, you have a very young child in your hands so, if I were you, I would concentrate on bonding and teaching 'manners' as you go along and not so much formal training. Plenty of time to train when the bird is older and more self-assured (babies would do whatever you want them to without complaint even when they are stressed out about it - but this can have bad consequences as they get older because the human/bird bond is damaged by it -they have looooong memories!)

No worries. I am mainly teaching Tupi to step up and down, target and fly to me when I call and fly to his cage. That takes up about ten minutes a day.We do two sessions of head scriches, beaky rubs, snuggles and he likes to lay upside down in my hand and play toes. He also has a lot of toys to play with including things he can destroy.

Ah, that's great! People would, sometimes, not realize that their bird, although it looks like an adult, it's still a young child emotionally speaking.